administrators from both schools met with the tssaa .
college dreams ( photo : katiewhitaker , getty images istockphoto ) murfreesboro -- the tssaa removed riverdale and smyrna from the high school girls basketball postseason on monday following a report from a high school referee in charge of their district 7 - aaa consolation game held saturday where he said that both schools " played to lose the game . "
smyrna ( 21 - 8 ) won the game 55 - 29 saturday against riverdale ( 22 - 8 ) , a program that won its third state title in four years in march 2013 with a 58th straight win .
the programs at riverdale , a state champion in 2013 , and smyrna were fined a total of $ 1,500 each monday and also placed on probation for a year by the tennessee secondary school athletic association .
both rutherford county schools were penalized .
 
it was scheduled to play smyrna .
neither powell prep teams banned from postseason murfreesboro , tenn. -- a pair of tennessee girls basketball high school teams have been pulled from the postseason for trying to lose a game to avoid the top - ranked team and improve their chances of advancing to the state tournament .